Torturers of the Argentine dictatorship soon to be sent to a “5-star prison”?

According to Javier Milei's government, their transfer is intended to relieve congestion in the conventional prison where they are incarcerated. These 19 convicts could benefit from numerous "privileges" in their future place of detention. This is a further affront to the government, according to human rights organizations.

Alfredo Astiz, nicknamed "the blond angel of death," seen here on the right in court on May 5, 2011, was sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity. He could benefit from privileged detention conditions in Campo de Mayo, human rights organizations denounce. photo DANIEL GARCIA/AFP

“Trial and punishment, common [classic, without privileges] and effective prison for the genocidaires.” This is one of the famous slogans that human rights organizations chant tirelessly, demanding justice for the crimes committed during the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983). Thirty thousand people “disappeared” then, some of them thrown alive from airplanes into the River Plate, at the mouth of the Atlantic Ocean.

The Ministry of National Security has announced the upcoming transfer of 19 torturers of the Argentine dictatorship, convicted of crimes against humanity and until now imprisoned in a conventional establishment – the federal prison of Ezeiza – to a much more luxurious detention center located in Campo de Mayo, a military camp near Buenos Aires.

A decision condemned by survivors' associations and their families, as well as a section of Argentine public opinion. “Campo de Mayo is a complex that is far from resembling a prison , describes the Nova press agency. It offers tennis courts, a vegetable garden, an equipped gymnasium, and philosophy and stretching workshops. A prison